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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people; and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

For the fourth time the officer elected by the people and ordained by the Constitution to fill a vacancy so created is called to assume the Executive chair.

In such cases friendships should be allowed to die out gradually by an intermission of intercourse.

As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.

The present moment is the same for all men, and their loss, therefore, is equal, for it is clear that what they lose in death is but a fleeting instant of time.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change

war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes

Even in the same family the gap is not so great; the wound closes up sooner than we should expect.

The very thing which is now the cause of thy great grief ought to have brought thee tranquillity.

Every man hath two birth-days: two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects his mortal duration.

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.

Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.

The position of the Negro today in America is the tragic but inevitable consequence of centuries of unequal treatment.